ALIPTERA

An advanced VTOL aircraft design needs high L/D and efficient high speed thrust generation for good cruise performance, and low disk loading and no flow interactions for high hovering performance. Low disk loading usually leads to designs having large rotors, but large rotors are very detrimental to high speed cruise performance... A wing designed to generate lift in hover, captures the highly convergent air rotor intake and augments the hover produced rotor lift, reducing the rotor size or/and power required for hover. More here: https://aliptera... The performance of the UAV-1 is similar to a fixed wing UAV, meaning long range, increased mission time in the air, higher payload, but also capable of vertical take-off and landing (VTOL). Having hovering ability, will outperform usual multi-rotors, as the lift created by the lip wings reduces the power requirement for hover, not mentioning that the UAV-1 is being capable of transitioning to efficient wing-borne forward flight.

Also known as: Aliptera Inc.